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G HANE REPEATER-TYPE TOY GUN Original Filed June 29, 19 16 Dec. 16, 1952 Patented Dec. 16, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,621,644 REPEATEIt-TYPE TOY GUN Gus Hane, Chico, Calif.

Original application June 29, 1946, Serial No.

680,390. Divided and this application September 22, 1950, Serial No. 186,164

2 Claims. (01. 124-27) This application is a division of co-pending application Serial No. 680,390, filed June 29, 1946, now Patent No. 2,528,723, on Arrow Projecting Toy Gun.

This invention is directed to, and it is an object to provide, improvements in toy guns; the gun including a novel spring-actuated plunger unit operative, when released, to project a toy bullet from the barrel.

7 Another object of the invention is to provide a toy gun, having a spring-actuated plunger unit as above, which includes a simple and yet effective trigger arranged to releasably hold the plunger in cocked position.

A further object of the invention is to provide a toy gun wherein the main body is comprised of a pair of matching, longitudinal sections secured together; said sections including complementary portions shaped to form the internal spaces for the working parts.

An additional object of the invention is to provide a novel magazine assembly whereby the toy gun can be operated, as a repeater, by manipulation of a reloading lever.

It is also an object of the invention to provide a repeater type toy gun which is designed for ease and economy of manufacture- A further object of the invention is to provide practical and reliable toy guns, and ones which will be exceedingly effective for the purpose for which they are designed. These objects are accomplished by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claims.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a side elevation of the gun as embodying the repeater feature.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side elevation of such gun with the near section of the body removed, and with the gun loaded and cocked.

Figure 3 is a similar view, but shows the gun as fired.

Figure 4 is a cross section of the gun taken through the trigger.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the gun comprises a main body I, including a barrel indicated generally at 2, and a stock, indicated generally at 3;. such main body being made up of a pair of matching longitudinal sections, each of which is indicated at 4. The sections 4 are of wood, plastic, or other similar material, and on adjacent faces include complementary portions shaped to form the internal spaces for the working parts of the gun. The sections 4 together by transverse screws 5.

Withinthe main body I the gun is formed with a main bore 6, open to the front end of the body and extending to, but terminating short of, the rear end of the barrel; there being a bullet projecting plunger I slidably disposed in the main bore 6, but of substantially lesser length. The bullet projecting plunger 1 is adapted to be advanced from a rearward or cocked position, as in Fig. 2, to an advanced position, as in Fig. 3, by means of a helical tension spring 8 which surrounds such plunger; the spring being connected, at its forward end to the body, and at its rearward end to the plunger, as shown.

Adjacent its rear end the plunger I is formed with a laterally extending trigger block 9 which runs in an elongated slot I0 in one section 4 of the main body; said trigger block including a pull cord II which facilitates retraction of said trigger block and the plunger I. To cock the gun the trigger block 9 is pulled rearwardly, loading the spring 8, and said block is then engaged beare secured hind a shoulder I2 formed by a downwardly extended notch I3 in the corresponding section 4 at the rear end of the elongated slot I0. When the trigger block 9 is engaged against the shoulder I2, the plunger I is maintained in cocked but releasable position. When a bullet I4, of wood, plastic, or the like, is engaged in the main bore 6 directly ahead of the'cocked position of the plunger I, the gun is ready to fire. To fire the gun the trigger block 9 is merely raised slightly until it escapes the shoulder 12, whence the plunger I snaps forwardly with a forceful motion under the influence of the spring 8, causing the bullet I4 to be projected out of the bore 6. The velocity of the bullet I4 is dependent, of course, upon the strength of the spring 8. It has been found that by using a relatively heavy spring and a comparably heavy bullet, small game may be killed with the described gun.

The bullets l4 are fed into the main bore 6 directly ahead of the plunger 'I,'when the latter is cooked, by means of the following reloading arrangement:

Directly below the main bore 6 the gun includes a magazine bore I5 which extends forwardly to communication with a vertical, bullet entry slot I6 which opens at the top into said bore 6.

A supply of bullets I4 is maintained in end to end relation in the magazine bore I5 by a magazine plunger I'I advanced by a helical spring I8 connected between said magazine plunger at one end and the body adjacent the other end. The

supply of bullets 14 in the magazine bore is placed in the gun through a vertical loading slot I9 which communicates with the magazine bore l intermediate its ends; the magazine plunger I"! being retracted by a pull cord 20, as shown in Fig. 2, when it is desired to load the magazine bore. The pull cord extends rearwardly through an opening in the body, and exteriorly thereof is formed with a loop 2| which may be engaged over the rear upper corner of the stock 3 to hold the magazine plunger l1 retracted during a loading operation.

The supply of bullets M in the magazine bore I5 are fed, one at a time, into the main bore 6, through the bullet entry slot l6, as follows:

Directly ahead of the vertical loading slot 19, the gun is provided with a bellcrank lever 22 swingably disposed between the sections 4 on a pivot 23, one leg of the lever 22 depending as an actuating handle 24. The other leg of the lever 22 extends forwardly, and at its front end includes an upturned loading finger 25 normally maintained in the bullet entry slot [8 in blocking relation to the supply of bullets in the magazine bore 15. A spring 26 urges the lever 22 in a direction to maintain such loading finger 25 in the slot I6. To shift a bullet from the magazine bore l6 into the main bore 6, the user of the gun pulls rearwardly on the handle 24 until a stop 21 limits such movement, and at which time the loading finger 25 has been retracted downwardly clear of the magazine bore, as shown in broken lines in Fig. 2. Immediately the lead bullet H of the supply in the magazine bore advances into the bullet entry slot I6 so that when the, handle 24 is released, the upturned loading finger 25 elevates such advanced bullet to firing position.

From the foregoing description it willbe readily seen that there has been produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objectsof the invention, as set forth herein.

While this specification. setsforth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice such deviations therefrom may be resorted to, as, do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention the following is claimed as new and useful, and upon which Letters Patent are desired:

1. A toy gun comprising a gun-shaped body having a barrel and a stock, the barrel being formed with a main bore adapted to receive a bullet therein, a spring-actuated plunger slidably mounted in the barrel adapted to engage and advance the bullet, a trigger on the plunger, means arranged to releasably hold the trigger against forward motion when the plunger is in retracted position, a bullet magazine in the barrel, and means to feed bullets one at a time from said magazine to the main bore; the bullet magazine being provided by a magazine bore in the barrel parallel to the main bore, there being a bullet entry slot communicating between one end of the magazine bore and the main bore, a spring-advanced plunger in the magazine bore acting to advance bullets therein toward said bullet entry slot, a spring-urged bellcrank lever pivoted on the body with one le depending as a handle, and a finger on the other leg of the lever normally disposed in and blocking said entry slot, said finger being adapted to be retracted by the lever and to then advance, when the lever is released, and move a bullet through the entry slot into the main bore.

2. In a toy gun having a barrel formed with a main bore adapted to receive a bullet therein, a spring-actuatedtrigger-plunger slidably mounted in the bore and adapted to engage and advance the bullet, means to releasably hold the plunger against forward movement and in a predetermined retracted position, the barrel having a secondary bore therein parallel to the main bore and forming a magazine for a single row of bullets, there being a bullet-feed slot at the forward end of the secondary bore extending laterally between the bores forwardly of the retracted position of the plunger, means to advance the row of bullets toward the forward end of the secondary bore so as to aline the foremost bullet with the feed slot, and a hand actuated element to push such foremost bullet laterally from the secondary bore to the main bore through the feed slot and normally closing said slot; said element comprising a hand lever pivoted at its rear end in the barrel transversely of the bores and disposed in a plane diametrally of the bores and laterally out from the secondary bore, a finger on the forward end ofthe lever normally projecting into and closing the feed slot and extending across the path of advancing movement of the row of bullets; and a handle On the lever projecting from the barrel so that the lever may be manipulated to withdraw the finger from the slot and row of bullets.

GUS HANE.

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